vulnerability

IBM AIX: bind_advisory12 (CVE-2016-1285): Denial of service vulnerability in ISC BIND

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 9, 2016
Added
Nov 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P4 and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4 does not properly handle DNAME records when parsing fetch reply messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet to the rndc (aka control channel) interface, related to alist.c and sexpr.c.

Solution

ibm-aix-bind_advisory12
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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